A&S Media Report - 5/23/2025

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188 external media stories tracked
2 press releases/tip sheets distributed
7 Cornell Chronicle
1 Internal Cornell platforms (research, AAD, MPA, etc)
6 A&S website
7 Tweets
5 Facebook

Humanities and Arts

‘Isn’t Reality Sad Enough?’

The New York Review
Related People: Sophie Pinkham
Related Department or Program: Comparative Literature

High-Altitude Sonic Tonic

CounterPunch
Related People: David Yearsley
Related Department or Program: Music

Supreme Court blocks Trump’s bid to resume deportations under 1798 wartime law (audio, begins 36:00)

MSNBC
Related People: Lawrence B. Glickman
Related Department or Program: History, American Studies Program

The Hoby cups: Tracing connections in Iron Age Denmark

The Past
Related People: Verity Platt
Related Department or Program: History of Art and Visual Studies

Social Sciences

Deepfakes and A.I. generated, non-consensual intimate imagery

CBTK FM and 31 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Gordon Pennycook
Related Department or Program: Psychology

Trump’s Tariffs Are Causing Misery. What if That’s the Point?

Daily Beast and 2 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Thomas Pepinsky
Related Department or Program: Government

How the U.S. Can Still Defend Democracy: Global Lessons on Building Broad Coalitions

The Fulcrum
Related People: Rachel Beatty Riedl
Related Department or Program: Government

A wake-up call for N.J. voters: Democracy needs your help

NJ.com
Related People: Rachel Beatty Riedl
Related Department or Program: Government

Brooks School kicks off Engaged College initiative with focus on partner network

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Jamila Michener
Related Department or Program: Government

Brain-inspired AI model learns sensory data efficiently

A&S Communications
Related People: Thomas A. Cleland
Related Department or Program: Psychology

All in a Day

CFWH FM and 31 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Gordon Pennycook
Related Department or Program: Psychology

New Medicaid Work Requirements 'Impossible' for People To Navigate

Newsweek and 5 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Jamila Michener
Related Department or Program: Government

“Auschwitz was my greatest classroom.” –Dr. Edith Eva Eger

Verdict
Related People: Joseph Margulies
Related Department or Program: Government

Humanities and Arts, Social Sciences

‘Friend, Colleague, Thinker’: Valentin-Yves Mudimbe remembered as an esteemed literary scholar, profound listener

The Chronicle
Related People: Grant Farred
Related Department or Program: Africana Studies and Research Center

The right and wrong ways to address campus antisemitism

The Hill and 2 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Glenn Altschuler
Related Department or Program: American Studies Program

Could a 'brain drain' be coming to the U.S.?

WOSU
Related People: Glenn Altschuler, Sarah Kreps
Related Department or Program: American Studies Program, Government

Review: The complexity of Mark Twain

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Related People: Glenn Altschuler
Related Department or Program: American Studies Program

What AI Can’t Read: Ambiguities and Silences

Inside Higher Ed and 1 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Jan Burzlaff
Related Department or Program: Jewish Studies Program

New book offers a look at how slaves sought freedom by sea

Florida Courier
Related People: Glenn Altschuler
Related Department or Program: American Studies Program

Sciences and Math

Lisa Randall, the theoretical physicist nominated for a Nobel Prize and who wrote an opera about the fifth dimension (Spanish)

El Pais
Related People: Csaba Csaki
Related Department or Program: Physics

Growth (audio, begins 28:15)

WNYC and 34 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Steven Strogatz
Related Department or Program: Mathematics

Carl Sagan's heir searching for extraterrestrial life: "For the first time, humanity has the technology to find it." (Spanish)

El Mundo and 10 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Lisa Kaltenegger
Related Department or Program: Astronomy, Carl Sagan Institute

Physicist Brad Ramshaw awarded $2M as Brown Investigator

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Brad Ramshaw
Related Department or Program: Physics

Bekasi Youth Behind Carbon Capture Study Using Solar Energy (Indonesian)

Tempo and 5 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Phillip Milner , Bayu Ahmad, graduate student
Related Department or Program: Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Happy together: Peroxide binds incompatible polymers for recycling

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Geoffrey W. Coates, Brett P. Fors , Shilin Cui, Jenny Hu, graduate students, Moritz Kränzlein, Anne LePointe
Related Department or Program: Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Happy together: Peroxide binds incompatible polymers for recycling

Phys.org and 4 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Geoffrey W. Coates, Brett P. Fors , Shilin Cui, Jenny Hu, graduate students, Moritz Kränzlein, Anne LePointe
Related Department or Program: Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Meet arXiv: The Ancient Website That Became the Foundation for AI Development (Indonesian)

Tirto
Related People: Paul Ginsparg
Related Department or Program: Physics

Can Sam Altman be trusted with the future?

New Yorker
Related People: Frank Rosenblatt
Related Department or Program: Neurobiology and Behavior

AI model mimics brain's olfactory system to process noisy sensory data efficiently

Tech Xplore and 4 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Thomas A. Cleland
Related Department or Program: Psychology

"Biggest surprise is if we find nothing." Astronomer reveals how we're looking for alien life on distant planets

BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Related People: Lisa Kaltenegger
Related Department or Program: Astronomy, Carl Sagan Institute

Moving pictures: Researchers use movies to diagnose EV battery failure

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Yao Yang, Erik Thiede , Kwanghwi Je, Yafet Negash ’27, Yimo Han, Ph.D. ’17, Shikai Liu, Juhyung Choi, and Zhijing (Zora) Zhang, Rafael Guzman-Soriano, Wenqi Li and Jiahong Jiang, graduate students
Related Department or Program: Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Moving pictures: Researchers use movies to diagnose EV battery failure

Phys.org and 4 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Yao Yang, Erik Thiede , Kwanghwi Je, Yafet Negash ’27, Yimo Han, Ph.D. ’17, Shikai Liu, Juhyung Choi, and Zhijing (Zora) Zhang, Rafael Guzman-Soriano, Wenqi Li and Jiahong Jiang, graduate students
Related Department or Program: Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Humanities and Arts, Sciences and Math

Seventeen Receive Awards Recognizing Inclusive Excellence

Graduate School
Related People: Samantha Noelle Sheppard, Helen Stec , Aleesha Mariya George, Leslie K. Trigoura, graduate students
Related Department or Program: Performing and Media Arts, Neurobiology and Behavior, Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Other

Merrill Scholars honor mentors who inspired them

Cornell Chronicle
Related People:
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